My Boring Life
Lawdog’s having a bad year it turns out. A bunch of folks have put together a raffle to help raise money for him. I can’t really donate financially, but I’m donating a chainmaille, stainless steel and crystal, 6 sided dice for the raffle. See the above link for how to enter to win it!
I discovered LawDog’s blog years ago. If you’ve not been reading it you need to do so. He tells awesome stories from his childhood and officer of the law days. And he has a good head on his shoulders when it comes to identifying bullshit.
However, its possible, that when you click the link above it may not work. Or that the front page will work, but not the older stuff.
See, when the Nordstream pipeline had its issues LawDog dug up his memories as a child of an oilfield engineer and typed up a couple posts. And they went viral. And then some idiot decided he needed to be punished for it and set bots to blowing up his bandwidth allowance.
I have issues when it comes to letting the idiots win. So when another member of the community pointed out that LawDog’s posts are still available via the WayBack Machine I decided I had to help share the love.
The wayback machine can be slow to load, so be patient with it. And bookmark LawDog’s blog’s main link while you’re at it. He’ll be back up on Nov 1. He’s worth reading. Don’t let the idiots win, k?
The cause of the commenting problems has been fixed and the plugin turned back on. My tests show it appears to be working. If you’re still having problems please contact me via the contact form.
Looks like one of my plugins went glitchy and wasn’t letting people post. The plugin has been temporarily disabled and for now everything works. There may be temporary disruptions as I try to figure out why the problem and if changing settings fixes it.
But its not really a meme, and it deserves its own space
Note: I took the screenshot myself, not photoshopped
Edited to add: yes, I have a problem with the messaging, because $70 less is still twice what I was paying before. But my REAL issue with it? You’d think the White House could afford to have a proper editor look these things over for miss-spellings….
Since I was on crutches and generally not mobile during the garden prep season I didn’t really do much of a garden this year.
Some peppers in pots on the back porch. Some melons in the raised stock tank beds.
A zucchini plant, a pumpkin plant, and a cucumber plant.
I picked two tires to become (hopefully) permanent plantings, Bakers Creek seeds had hardy figs that are supposed to be hardy down to zone 5, which I am. Apparently they’re more bushes than trees here, so this should work about right.
The rest of the garden is going to hell right now. I’ve weed-whacked it, put down a pre-emergent, and roundup, and its still full of weeds and grass. 3 years of neglect coming home to roost I guess. I’ll have to decide how I want to go about getting it back into a condition I can plant in as I continue to become more mobile. I’m off crutches except for work at this point, but the ankle is still not back to full strength (probably another 6 months per the ortho), and so there’s limits to how much I can do at one time.
The fennel in the tractor tire bed is coming back, as are the snap dragon flowers, I’d also planted some purple balloon flowers for early color and as you can see they’re doing well too.
I also planted some flowers in the half barrel planters by the back porch.
I have changed hosting companies for both the blog and my chainmaille site. So far everything looks good, but if you notice something not working right please let me know.
I recently updated the sites PHP version, and it promptly broke several plugins. I’ve mostly got them fixed, except for the RSS feed pages where I’m hoping they’ll get the plugin updated before I get tired of it and have to go find another plugin to use. However if you do spot a problem or error somewhere on the site please let me know.
One of the bonuses to being stuck on the couch is more time to work on my chainmaille and start adding things to my site again.
I’ve had the idea for these ear-cuff/earring sets floating around my brain for a while, but was having QC issues with the scales that were available for purchase. It turned out that the solution was to buy plain scales, deburr them, and then paint them myself.
Then to top it off I found a lady on etsy who hand paints eyes with light reactive paints. And I immediately had to make up sets to match. I haven’t done as much painting of scales as I’d like, as it requires me to be on my feet in the kitchen to do it, but still, the colors I can produce are worth it.
And a batch of moorish rose “ribbon” bookmarks for actual dead-tree books.
Then I did up these fidget sets. These I haven’t gotten listed on the site yet, cause getting the video set is a pain. But here they are.
Then I was discussing with the guy who makes the hairsticks, about him having some of my chainmaille hairstick pendants to sell on the table with the hairsticks when he does Cons. He asked me to do up a batch of pendants so he could get an idea as to the selection. Since they’re easy to convert to earrings if the whole deal doesn’t work out I said sure! Here’s a sneak peak at a few of what I made up to show him.
In other news I’m healing well. My physical therapist approved my moving around on one crutch when possible. And I’ll be returning to work, 2-3 days a week, 4hrs a day, starting tomorrow. I’m still not allowed to drive, you need reasonable flexibility as well as the ability to tolerate a fair bit of weight on your right foot to be able to drive properly, but I’m hopeful that I’ll be there before the end of April.